Austerely, severely: “if I have too a. punished you,” Tp. IV, 1, 1. Singular use: “might'st thou perceive a. in his eye that he did plead in earnest?” Err. IV, 2, 2. This seems to mean: couldst thou perceive, by a very grave and severe expression of his eye, that he was in earnest?
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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